Ad Sectam

At the suit of. It is commonly abbreviated. It is used where it is desirable to put the name of the defendant first, as in some cases where the defendant is filing his papers; thus, Roe ads. Doe, where Doe is plaintiff and Roe defendant. It is found in the indexes to cases decided in some of our older American books of reports, but has become pretty ■ much disused.

At the suit of. It is commonly abbreviated. It is used where it is desirable to put the name of the defendant first, as in some cases where the defendant is filing his papers; thus, Roe ads. Doe, where Doe is plaintiff and Roe defendant. It is found in the indexes to cases decided in some of our older American books of reports, but has become pretty much disused. AD TERMINUM QUI PR/ETERIT. A writ of entry which formerly lay for the lessor or his heirs when a lease had been made of lands and tenements for a term of life or years, and, after the term had expired, the lands were withheld from the lessor by the tenant or other person possessing the same. Fitzherb. Nat. Brev. 201.

At the suit of. Commonly abbreviated to ads. Used in entering and indexing the names of eases, where it is desired that the name of the defendant should come first. Thus, “B. ads. A.” indicates that 1. is defendant in an action brought by A., and the title so written would be an inversion of the more usual form “A. o B.” Au affidavit of merits, on the same paper with the pleas, by a defendant, entitled “C. D. ads. A. B.,” is the same in law as if entitled “A. B. ©. C. D.,” and is properly entitled, and it is error to strike the pleas from the files as for want of a sufficient affidavit. uO ILL. 11,

Lat. At the suit, at the suit of. Reg. Orig, 2*73 a. Bract, fol. 131 b. Ad nullius sectam; at the suit of no one. Id, fol 133 a. This term, (abbreviated to adsm,, and ads.,) is still retained in practice, in entitling papers. See Ads,